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The quietness of her question contrasted strangely with the gruffness of the Second Deputy's voice as he answered her. "Oh, they think I 'm a has-been round here," he snorted. "They 've got the idea I 'm out o' date. And I 'm going to show 'em a thing or two to wake 'em up." "How?" asked the woman. "By doing what their whole kid-glove gang have n't been able to do," he avowed.
The Irish-American put him up, and everybody thought he'd be King at the Mardi Gras. And then suddenly they came pouring in for me, till at the finish I had Billy looking like a regular has-been. 'It's funny the way the voting jumps about every year in this Coney election. It was just Providence, and it didn't seem right to let it go by. So I went in to the old man, and told him.
"It seems to me she has the upper hand of you at present, however," I said, not without secret satisfaction. "She may be in America by this time." "I think not," said he. "Every steamship has-been watched for days, and we are quite positive she has not sailed.
The old New Englander is as dead as the Indian. We are has-beens." "But why?" urged Little Jim. "I don't feel like a has-been. What's made us this way? Why don't you and the rest do something?" "You'd have to change our skins," replied his father, "to make us fight these foreigners on their own level. I'm going to bed. No use waiting for Mama. There's a hard day ahead in the quarry tomorrow.
At first there was nothing just an 'experience. A mild abstraction, buried in the past, a sentimental 'has-been' without form or substance. Then, without warning, the experience acquired a name, and then a history and then, just when I had begun to forget about it, hair suddenly popped up, yellow hair, and, the day after, eyes blue eyes, misty. The nose remains indeterminate, but noses often do.
In the Witch-hazel has been found a soothing balm for many an ache and pain. The Witch-hazel you buy in the drugstores, is made out of the bark of this tree. If you chew one of the little branches you will know it by the taste. Near the top is a flower that is finished, its snakes have fled; and at the top of all is a bud for next year. That is, they are is, has-been and going-to-be.
What I have written and done, France knows, but my thoughts are not limited to France, they seek a wider horizon. France is a decaying nation her doom is sealed. I work and write for the To-Be, not the Has-Been. Such as my life is, it has never been darkened or brightened by love of any sort, save that which my mother gave me.
I wanted t' make you a real lady t' take you away from Mulligan's but now I'm only a 'has-been. I've lost me chance oh, Hermy, I'm done for; I oh, Geoff, I think I'll go to bed." So Ravenslee set down the flask, and, clasping an arm about Spike's swaying form, led him from the room, while Hermione stood rigid and watched them go.
"You'll have a good fight but fight as you never fought before; as you never hope to fight again. Cottonton will watch you, kid. Don't shame them; don't shame me. Show 'em what you're made of. Show Red that a former stable-boy, no matter what class he is now, can't have the licking of a former master. Show 'em a has-been can come back. Show 'em what Garrison stands for.
It would writhe under the mild compassion of a former admirer as much as it would under the open jibes of his enemies. He had plenty of enemies. Every "is," "has-been," "would-be," "will-be" has enemies. It is well they have. Nothing is lost in nature. Enemies make you; not your friends. Garrison had selected a car next to the smoker and occupied a seat at the forward end, his back to the engine.
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